Workplace Dating and Sexual Harassment

The fundamental principle of workplace sexual harassment law is this: all employees are due equal respect based on the quality of their work and their professionalism. No one can or should take away that right - not an unenlightened employer, supervisor, co-worker, client, customer or vendor. The work of a personal injury attorney who specializes in sex harassment in the workplace is to ensure those rights remain available to everyone.

Several problems arise when co-workers become romantically involved. However, "natural" it may be for an individual to feel attracted to another person or persons they encounter in their place of employment, the rules still apply. Principles of professionalism are to be maintained at all times. If not, one party may have reason to engage a workplace sexual harassment attorney (another term for a personal injury attorney whose practice is focused on sex harassment) to restore fairness to the place of employment and achieve a financial settlement for the harassed worker.

This can apply even when both parties are consensual in acting on attraction. There are no federal or state laws that stand in the way of co-workers dating. Indeed, it happens with great frequency. But the rules prohibit each of the following:

Persistence by one party to initiate or continue a relationship that the other does not or no longer wants.Excessive flirtatiousness and banter of a sexual nature, particularly between individuals who are supervisors and their subordinates.Retaliation by way of gossip, adverse work assignments, stalled promotions, poor performance reviews or wage increases.

When the human resources department is involved to discourage such behavior from continuing, but that individual does not cease the behavior, it can be grounds for termination of employment - and/or litigation.

Getting a sex harassment attorney involved

Workplace sexual harassment attorneys routinely meet with prospective clients who are uncertain if their situation qualifies for a lawsuit. In such initial consultations - typically provided free of charge - the lawyer might offer what Buddhist monks have observed for centuries about the relationships between men and women.* Their belief is that all men should think of older women as they would their own mother, women of the same age as a sister and younger women as a daughter - which in each case implies an innate prohibition against dating. Short of that, there may be harassment that is in violation of California codes and statutes.

*Note that sexual harassment can also occur between members of the same sex and from women directed at men.

The work of a personal injury attorney who specializes in sex harassment in the workplace is to ensure those rights remain available to everyone. If not, one party may have reason to engage a workplace sexual harassment attorney to restore fairness to the place of employment and achieve a financial settlement for the harassed worker. Rate this Article

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